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Ryan Russell [photographer]

Sugarbear.

About Me


check out my new Paramore photo on the back cover of AP this month!
All photographs by Ryan Russell.
None of my photographs are taken with a digital camera.
Please visit my website if you would like to see more: [ www.ryanrussell.net ]
I was born and raised in Birmingham, Alabama.
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I rock Macbeth Footwear.
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Chicago, IL
Alabama
(torn down in 2007)
My Chemical Romance - Birmingham, AL
Paramore - Nashville, TN
Vampire Weekend - Atlanta, GA
Death Cab for Cutie rehearsal in Seattle, WA
Death Cab for Cutie - Seattle, WA
Ben Gibbard/Chris Walla of Death Cab for Cutie - preshow in Providence, RI
Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie - preshow in Providence, RI
Death Cab for Cutie - Providence, RI
Death Cab for Cutie - Providence, RI
Death Cab for Cutie after set before encore - Providence, RI
Ben Verellen of Harkonen/Helms Alee
Tom Gabel of Against Me! (and lil' Mike) - Portland, OR
(on tour w/ Against Me!)
the Pacific Ocean
the Holland Tunnel
Birmingham, Alabama
Chicago, IL
Paramore - Chicago, IL
Paramore - Chicago, IL
Chicago, IL
in the studio with Underoath - Atlanta, GA
Georgia Aquarium - Atlanta, GA
Georgia Aquarium - Atlanta, GA
Alabama
Paramore - Franklin, TN
(hayley keeps it real)
Josh Scogin of the Chariot
Adam Lazzara of Taking Back Sunday
Chicago, IL
Gerard Way of My Chemical Romance
Fred Mascherino of the Color Fred/Taking Back Sunday
Album cover of "Bend to Break"
Foo Fighters - Memphis, TN
New York City
Henry Rollins of Black Flag
Paramore - Boise, ID
John Krasinski of NBC's the Office (JIM), Johnathan Rice, Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie/the Postal Service and David Bazan of Pedro the Lion
(on tour w/Ben Gibbard. for full tour journal: click here )
Steve Snere of These Arms Are Snakes/Kill Sadie - Birmingham, AL
Mike Kinsella of American Football / Owen
Kevin Devine of Miracle of 86
Underoath practice - Tampa, FL
Coney Island
Mastodon - Atlanta, GA
Against Me! - Seattle, WA (EndFEST)
(on tour w/ Against Me!)
Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age
Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age
John Krasinski of NBC's the Office (JIM) and
Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie/the Postal Service - Carrboro, NC
(on tour w/Ben Gibbard. for full tour journal: click here )
Paramore - Chicago, IL
Paramore (Halloween encore) - Chicago, IL
Max Bemis of Say Anything - Atlanta, GA
Taking Back Sunday - Lowell, MA
Taking Back Sunday preshow
Underoath - Lowell, MA
Underoath - Lowell, MA
New York City
Death Cab for Cutie - Atlanta, GA
Death Cab for Cutie soundcheck in Birmingham, AL
Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie/the Postal Service - Atlanta, GA
Make Believe - Chicago, IL
As I Lay Dying - San Diego, CA
Cartel - Atlanta, GA
Graham - Birmingham, AL
Russian Circles - Birmingham, AL
Steve Albini of Shellac at Electrical Audio - Chicago, IL
My Chemical Romance
My Chemical Romance
My Chemical Romance
Tim Kinsella of Joan of Arc/Capn' Jazz - Chicago, IL
Patton Oswalt - Los Angeles, CA
Fred Mascherino of the Color Fred/Taking Back Sunday - Lowell, MA
New York City
Bob Mould of Husker Du and
Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie/the Postal Service - Washington DC
(on tour w/Ben Gibbard. for full tour journal: click here )
CONVERGE - Salem, MA
Dallas Taylor of Maylene and the Sons of Disaster
Josh Cornutt of Maylene and the Sons of Disaster
Lee Turner of Maylene and the Sons of Disaster
Maylene and the Sons of Disaster - Album cover of "II"
Ted Leo - Atlanta, GA
Taking Back Sunday
(on tour w/Taking Back Sunday)
Taking Back Sunday
(on tour w/Taking Back Sunday)
Adam Lazzara of Taking Back Sunday
(on tour w/Taking Back Sunday)
Paramore
Underoath - Louisville, KY
Chicago, IL
Chicago, IL
Josh Farro of Paramore
Chad Gilbert of New Found Glory, Andy Jackson of Hot Rod Circuit
Anthony Raneri of Bayside, and Hayley Williams of Paramore - St Louis, MO
Circa Survive - Portland, OR
Taking Back Sunday - Chicago, IL
Aaron Gillespie of Underoath/the Almost - San Francisco, CA
Paramore - Seattle, WA (EndFEST)
My Chemical Romance
These Arms Are Snakes (are in a basket) - Atlanta, GA
the Almost - Atlanta, GA
Seattle, WA
Mastodon - Athens, GA
Seattle, WA
David Cross of Mr Show / Arrested Development - Los Angeles, CA
Athens, GA
Patton Oswalt - Athens, GA
Every Time I Die - Chicago, IL
Minus the Bear - Seattle, WA
Norma Jean - Birmingham, AL
Mastodon - Atlanta, GA
San Francisco, CA
Converge - Birmingham, AL
Converge - Birmingham, AL
Alabama
Bill Kelliher of Mastodon and
Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age - Los Angeles, CA
CONVERGE - Salem, MA
Alabama
Atlanta, GA
Taking Back Sunday - Atlanta, GA
Slayer - Atlanta, GA
Florida
New Mexican Disaster Squad - Birmingham, AL
Tom Araya of Slayer - Atlanta, GA
Underoath - Atlanta, GA
Converge - Atlanta, GA
Nashville, TN
Georgia
Alabama
Alabama

My Interests

death cab for cutie, watching the weather, xbox360, chicago, records, ladies, not very good photographs, screenprinting, vitamin water, freight trains, polaroids, lomography, dickies pants, bbq, tunnels, xbox360, lighthouses, bridges, little caesars. im pretty lame.

I'd like to meet:



Music:

+44, ac/dc, achilles, against me!, air, akimbo, alexisonfire, alkaline trio, the almost, aloha, american analog set, american football, anberlin, anchor & braille, angels and airwaves, the anniversary, aqueduct, armor for sleep, ash, at the drive in, aveo, a wilhelm scream, bad astronaut, bad brains, bad religion, band marino, bayside, david bazan, beck, beirut, be your own pet, big black, big business, bikini kill, black cross, black lips, blame game, black sabbath, blink182, bloc party, blonde redhead, the blood brothers, blur, boris, botch, david bowie, boys life, braid, breaking pangea, breather resist, british sea power, broadcast, broken social scene, the bronx, cadillac blindside, cale parks, camera obscura, capn jazz, the cardinal sin, cartel, cat power, challenger, circa survive, city & colour, the city on film, clouds, codeseven, coheed and cambria, coldplay, coliseum, the color fred, colossal, comeback kid, converge, the cootees, creedence clearwater revival, cursive, dashboard confessional, daughters, death cab for cutie, death from above 1979, decahedron, deerhoof, descendents, kevin devine, devo, dinosaur jr, the dismemberment plan, doomriders, drive like jehu, drunk horse, earlimart, early man, eisley, elefant, emery, the evens, envy on the coast, every time i die, explosions in the sky, face to face, failure, fairweather, fake problems, the fall of troy, fall out boy, farewell, the farewell bend, feist, field music, fleetwood mac, foo fighters, frodus, frou frou, the futureheads, gainer, gallows, gang of four, marvin gaye, the germs, the get up kids, ghosts and vodka, gnarls barkley, the go! team, gospel, grade, grandmaster flash and the furious five, al green, green day, haram, harkonen, harvey milk, haste, headlights, richard hell, jimi hendrix, hey mercedes, high on fire, the hives, holy roman empire, homesick for space, the hope conspiracy, hot rod circuit, hot snakes, humans, husker du, ikara colt, ima robot, imbroco, interpol, isis, michael jackson, jackson united, jaguar love, the jealous sound, jimmy eat world, joan of arc, jonathan rice, joy division, trever keith, kevin devine, kill creek, killswitch engage, kings of convenience, kiss, knapsack, lagwagon, led zeppelin, sondre lerche, le tigre, the lemonheads, lifetime, the life and times, logh, longwave, look mexico, lords, love is red, love of everything, love of diagrams, low, lugsole, m83, mae, the magnetic fields, make believe, man ...or astroman?, manitoba, marigold, maritime, mare, martin youth auxiliary, mastodon, matchbook romance, mates of state, matt & kim, melvins, midlake, the mighty lemon drops, millencolin, million dead, minor threat, minus the bear, miracle of 86, misfits, mission of burma, mock orange, mogwai, monade, the monorchid, montag, motion city soundtrack, mum, my chemical romance, naked raygun, the narrator, neon blonde, the new amsterdams, a new found glory, new mexican disaster squad, nirvana, norma jean, no use for a name, nofx, nowhere squares, oasis, olympia, owen, owls, the out_circuit, panthers, paramore, pavement, pedro the lion, pelican, pig destroyer, pinback, plate six, playing enemy, pop unknown, portastatic, posion the well, the postal service, pretty girls make graves, prince, the prom, pomegranates, the promise ring, the power and the glory, queen, queens of the stone age, radiohead, ramones, razor crusade, refused, reggie and the full effect, rem, red house painters, red sparowes, rival schools, the riverdales, rocket from the crypt, rolling stones, roy, safety in numbers, samiam, saosin, saves the day, say anything, servotron, shamelady, sharks keep swimming, shellac, shelter, the shins, shoplifting, the smashing pumpkins, the smiths, smoke or fire, smoking popes, societa anonima, solea, so many dynamos, someone loves you boris yeltsin, sonic youth, sparta, starmarket, statistics, stereolab, rod stewart, strung out, sun kil moon, superchunk, sweet cobra, swervedriver, swirlies, the sword, systems officer, taking back sunday, talking heads, ted leo + the pharmacists, tegan and sara, texas is the reason, these arms are snakes, thin lizzy, thrice, thursday, torche, tokyo police club, trail of dead, transistor transistor, tv on the radio, underoath, unwed sailor, unwound, valient thorr, vampire weekend, van halen, vesper, vitreous humor, wax, the walkmen, jim ward, whippersnapper, the white stripes, the who, xbxrx, yeah yeah yeahs, thom yorke, young widows

Movies:

all the presidents men
anchorman
apollo 13
the battle of algiers
bottle rocket
buffalo '66
coming to america
conspiracy
control
election
forrest gump
the goonies
harry potter i-v
high fidelity
homeland insecurities
in good company
iron eagle
juno
the life aquatic
lost in translation
mr deeds
office space
orange county
pootie tang
prefontaine
pripyat
rocky i-v
rushmore
the royal tenenbaums
saving private ryan
seven
snoopy come home
spiderman i-iii
the squid and the whale
star wars
wayne's world
the weather underground
wedding crashers
wet hot american summer

Television:

30 days
arrested development
band of brothers
the bernie mac show
chappelle's show
the cosby show
curb your enthusiasm
the deadliest catch
dog the bounty hunter
freaks and geeks
from the earth to the moon
house
king of the hill
man vs. wild
the office
pete and pete
rob and big
run's house
seinfeld
sifl and olly
the sopranos
sundance/ifc channels
sunny in philadelphia
the west wing
the wire

Books:

soledad brother.

Heroes:

you of course!

My Blog

on tour with Ben Gibbard of DCFC this week!

Hey!So I was in Chicago this weekend to see Ben Gibbard from Death Cab for Cuties's acoustic set. I've had some recordings of his solo sets before, but live it's amazing. The end of this week I'll be ...
Posted by ryan on Mon, 07 May 2007 08:00:00 PST

SPIN Magazine - Apr '07 issue - On newsstands April 2nd

go buy that issue... you'll see why
Posted by ryan on Fri, 16 Feb 2007 08:59:00 PST